Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 132 - 129 Still Need to Coax Well [680+ votes]

Chapter 132: Chapter 129 Still Need to Coax Well [680+ votes]

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Zhang Shan Ni returned home and meticulously reported to her mother-in-law where she had been, whom she had met, and detailed everything one by one.

Because she is the new bride, being a bit naive is never wrong.

Due to what Grandpa had said last night, tomorrow is the last leisure day, and the day after tomorrow winter harvesting will begin.

The weather has started to turn cold slowly, and the leaves on the mountains are gradually turning yellow, heralding the arrival of winter.

Zhang Shan Ni thought about all the male manpower in the family who had returned home, each one of them a meat-eating beast. If there isn’t enough meat, how can they have the energy to work? If the men can’t eat their fill, as a new daughter-in-law, how could she have the heart to eat meat? Thus, to ensure she had enough meat, Zhang Shan Ni was determined to go down the mountain to hunt more game tomorrow.

The next day

Zhang Shan Ni notified her mother-in-law, carried a large bamboo basket, and with a wood-cutting knife in hand, she headed up the mountain before dawn.

As she watched time pass by during her hunt, the blink of an eye went by, and finally, Zhang Shan Ni carried a large basket, one hand holding two burlap bags, on her back a bamboo basket, and in her hands, four cloth bags, looking like a porter. With her small stature of about 1.63 meters, she indeed looked pitiful.

Xie Jingzi happened to be hiding under an eave alone. Seeing Third Sister-in-law in this peculiar state, she couldn’t care less about her red-rimmed eyes and hurried over to help, "Third Sister-in-law, let me help you."

Zhang Shan Ni frowned and scrutinized her little aunt, and seeing nothing really amiss, she gently spoke, "It’s good that the youngest is back. Rest well. Mom has been worried about you not eating or living well in school. Spend some good time with her when you’re back."

As she spoke to her little aunt, Zhang Shan Ni’s pace didn’t slow, and she refused, "No need for your help, I’ll take it straight to the front yard."

Xie Jingzi felt a bit bitter under Third Sister-in-law’s penetrating gaze, not daring to say more, and obediently followed behind her to the front yard.

"Yo, Third Sister-in-law, you’re back." Wang Xiaocui, seeing it was nearly mealtime by the time Zhang Shan Ni came down from the mountain, felt a surge of jealous annoyance, ignoring the basket of game in her hands and spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"Mm." Zhang Shan Ni glanced at her and snorted as a response, continuing to place the cloth bags near the well. Seeing how sensible her elder sister-in-law was, Cheng stepped forward to take the bamboo basket from her shoulder, Zhang Shan Ni nodded and called her "eldest sister-in-law," then handed the basket on her back over to her.

"You’ve worked hard, the hunt today was really good!" Xu Xiaofen winked at Zhang Shan Ni and scoffed in Wang Xiaocui’s direction, her hands quick in their work.

Since two days ago, when Zhang Shan Ni unlocked her hunting skills, she would go up the mountain every day early in the morning, and usually wouldn’t return until around eleven or twelve o’clock, just in time for lunch after tidying up herself.

Of course, there’s a bit of time after lunch for a nap, it’s necessary to conserve energy for the afternoon’s work.

Thanks to Zhang Shan Ni’s effective hunting over these three days, the family had meat soup to drink at every meal. Xiao Si and Xiaoqi, just back from their travels, after eating meat for several days, finally had some color back in their faces, though due to prolonged hunger, they still looked skinny and gaunt, causing heartfelt pity.

It is because Xiao Si and Xiaoqi, the siblings, were "abused" that no one in the family liked Wang Xiaocui, the fifth family’s daughter-in-law.

Even though she is not even three months pregnant, Xiuhua still insists on making her do the household chores.

Perhaps harboring resentment, Xiuhua finally found someone to vent on. Early in the morning, she would go to wake up the fifth family, tasks that used to be done by Zhang Shanni, now all fell into her hands.

Back at her maternal home, Wang Xiaocui was truly "nurturing the fetus", having stayed for more than half a month and gained a full ten pounds. With her rosy complexion and compared to her children, she appeared even more detestable as a mother!

According to Zhang Shanni, with Wang Xiaocui’s mindless thinking, wasn’t starving her own children her way of expressing dissatisfaction and punishing the Xie Family? It was outright rebellion!

However, such actions did not bring any benefits. Instead, it made the family resent her even more. Moreover, she had lost the "filial piety of a mother" from her children.

The two young children would maintain a distance of three meters whenever they saw her. Xiao Si’s dislike for Wang Xiaocui was evident on his face, and Xiaoqi deeply realized that following her brother’s lead was the only way to get enough to eat. Seeing her brother not getting close to their mother, she certainly wouldn’t either. She was too young to understand that Xiao Si had suffered a lot at their grandmother’s house to feed her.

Compared to the lively Xiao Si of the past, he has become much more silent now. Whenever he sees his birth mother, he remains silent and stays away. After returning home, he took his sister directly to live in their grandparents’ room. He absolutely refused to return to his own room to share with his birth mother.

Seeing that her children were not close to her, Wang Xiaocui astonishingly did not mind, thinking it was better for the children to live with their grandparents, enjoying being unburdened.

Her behavior greatly shocked Zhang Shanni; being a mother to such extent was even worse than Lin Zhaodi! Does this woman even have a brain? She only cares about giving birth and not raising them, thinking the children will be filial to her in the end?

Little did she know, human relationships require reciprocal effort for genuine emotions to develop. It’s not because one is a blood relative that they are inherently loyal and filial!

Indeed, the grandmother, distressed for her grandchildren, hated Wang Xiaocui to the core. She took on the authoritative role of a mother-in-law, making her get up before six in the morning to sweep the courtyard, wash clothes, chop vegetables, and then cook breakfast.

She didn’t allow her to rest afterward either, following which she had her pickle vegetables or sew clothes and shoes, basically keeping her busy without a break!

Of course, compared to the eldest sister-in-law who had to go with the in-laws to water fields and weed, doing heavy physical work from early morning, Wang Xiaocui’s tasks were still reasonable.

Only Zhang Shanni secretly felt relieved: with Wang Xiaocui’s return, she finally got away from the kitchen.

She even got up earlier than Wang Xiaocui, leaving the house before five. Aside from Xiuhua, no one else really knew what time she left the house.

Because of this, Zhang Shanni inadvertently made Wang Xiaocui look bad in front of Xiuhua, furthering the impression that the fifth family’s daughter-in-law was lazy.

If she doesn’t train her into a proper daughter-in-law now, in the future, only her son and grandson will suffer!

Seeing the scrawny faces of Xiaoqi and Xiao Si, Xiuhua was completely unable to be "kind-hearted" and certainly not soft-hearted.

And with Wang Xiaocui’s pregnancy not even three months along, showing no bump yet, Xiuhua, unable to see the fetus, would call upon her more strenuously, often pushing her to the limit, tiring her out but careful not to harm her belly.